Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French edition appertaining to the Church and

appertaining to the Church and Poor of the Parish of St

From the first edition of ‘The Holy Land’ and ‘Egypt and Nubia’

maps tell many stories

which was a step towards improving the reliability of charts of the French coast available to the Royal Navy during the Seven Years’ War

Copies are located in the British Library (OCLC 556355832)

Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French edition appertaining to the Church andDappers plan of Cairo follows Matteo Paganos magnificent 21 sheet wall map, published in Venice in 1549. Cairo was one of the great trading centres of the early modern world, and Venice was Cairos principal European trading partner. Most western map makers, including Braun & Hogenberg, used Pagano as a base map until Pierre Jacotin surveyed Cario for Napoleon during the French occupation 250 years later. Dapper takes Pagano's viewpoint, from the west